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out its own process, but remains deeply dual 

 and separative. On the other hand Life, even 

 in its chemical aspect is an ever self-return- 

 ing process, overcoming not only the dualism 

 of Chemism, but of the whole Diacosmos, as 

 we have already seen. 



Still, lest Life may become too proud over 

 its superiority, we have to emphasize again 

 its smallness, its relatively tiny volume. But 

 Chemism reaches out to the extent of the 

 cosmical universe, it is taking place in the 

 sun and stars, which are burning to the point 

 of luminosity combustion being a chemical 

 process! And in the interstellar spaces no- 

 body can tell how much chemistry is going 

 on, keeping invisible and perchance awaiting 

 other ways of detection besides that of light. 

 The spectroscope is essentially a chemical in- 

 strument, and has revealed to us the stellar 

 fires as the blazes of innumerable cosmical 

 smithies which are forging the chemical ele- 

 ments, hydrogen and the rest. Thus Chem- 

 ism has its laboratories strewn throughout 

 the physical universe. 



And yet we have to think that the chemical 

 act has its purposive end in the vital process, 

 small as this is. The unbounded Cosmos is 

 to be strained through a point, is to be indi- 

 viduated that it reach its destiny and get 

 alive, that it become quick and stay no longer 



